Word: pacificism
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Poised between the Pacific and southeast Alaskan coastal glaciers lies Tongass National Forest. Don't let the Alaska address fool you: Tongass is a rain forest. Protected from snow by the tree canopy and from the frigid air by the warmer ocean winds, deer browse among ancient groves of Sitka...
In last week's congressional battle the issue was the fate of a pulp mill owned by the Ketchikan Pulp Co., a division of Louisiana-Pacific Corp. that employs 600. It's a high-cost operation that relied on below-market-cost timber from the Tongass to make dissolving pulp...
While the Senator blustered, Louisiana-Pacific was getting ready to toss the mill overboard. Why? As a financial proposition, logging in remote, southeast Alaska is problematic because of the high cost of Alaskan labor and the expense of building logging roads. Now, with pulp prices falling, the company is facing...
Stieglitz's own work appears here in a range from his early, somewhat ethereal views of New York City streets to his more abstract works in later life, which center around nature studies at his home on Lake George. Besides providing pleasingly varied conceptions of physical and environmental beauty, such...
On a more political note, French president Jacques Chirac was awarded the peace prize for "commemorating the 50th anniversary of Hiroshima with atomic bomb tests in the Pacific." Chirac, who was not present at the event, was congratulated by Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel in an audio message played at the...